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Polishing your knobs

Started by _Red One_ , Mar 22 2014 09:42 PM

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#1 _Red One_

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 09:42 PM

After a few beers today,, (probably why I am even bothering to put this up ) and really missing having my Torrie in the driveway I got to thinking what I had in the shed I could tinker with.

Well just so happens I have my (original to car) radio and I have been looking at buying a complete new one off EBay as my chrome parts of the tuner and tone adjustment looked very shabby and wanting to have the radio in the car after the restoration I thought I needed to replace them.

Well, beer does wonderful things so I though I would try clean them up a bit so grabbed some 'cut n' polish' from the car detailing bag and sat and rubbed a while. Hmm this just might work so got the old Dremel tool out with the tiny buffing wheel and finished them off to a pretty decent shine. The small pitting/blemishes you can see in the pictures is actually really hard to see by eye in natural light.

So don't be afraid to rip the knob out and give it a polish. The results will really satisfy.

Next is a set of tail lights I have as spares but that won't be half as exciting.

Cheers Brad,,

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#2 sibhs

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 09:49 PM

Nice work Brad.
Ha ha ha, that's what I tell my wife when I head to the shed.
"Just polishing my knobs."

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#3 Ice

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 09:50 PM

Skaps really good and polishing knobs

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#4 _Skapinad_

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 09:56 PM

thanks.. I am good.

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#5 _2ELCS_

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 10:00 PM

Was waiting for that....

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#6 Ice

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 10:10 PM

Was waiting for that....

I couldnt let that one go wayne lol

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#7 _Skapinad_

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 10:14 PM

ashame your post made no sense... at instead of and would have worked...

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#8 wot179

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 10:22 PM

You can get a similar result using warm soapy water and ultra fine steelwool.

But be gentle....

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#9 _Lazarus_

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Posted 22 March 2014 - 11:39 PM

I've heard there's a woman in town who makes a living polishing knobs.

I might give her a call tomorrow.

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#10 Tyre biter

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 07:16 AM

Brad,

Don't worry about what people think or say; It is your knob and so you can polish it as much, as often and as hard or slow as you like

Cheers, TB

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#11 _Red One_

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 12:32 PM

Brad,

Don't worry about what people think or say; It is your knob and so you can polish it as much, as often and as hard or slow as you like

Cheers, TB

Hehe,,, yes, a good mind numbing exercise,, gotta do something if you have a spare ten minutes,,

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#12 _hutch_

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 03:25 PM

I get the missus to polish me knobs,she's good at it lol

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#13 wot179

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 03:35 PM

You have more than one?

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#14 N/A-PWR

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 04:30 PM

Hey Brad,

Got to be a Nice Looking Knob too, otherwise it won't be useful

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#15 _hutch_

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 05:58 PM

Wot ...do you think I would be this silly just polishing one knob do ya lol

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#16 _havinfun200872_

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Posted 23 March 2014 - 06:55 PM

its your knob and you can polish it a fast and as much as you want

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#17 _Red One_

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Posted 29 March 2014 - 09:33 PM

Took my radio apart today and gave it a good clean. It has red and also black over spray on it for some reason but I managed to remove 90% of the red that was on the face and push buttons.

This is apparently the original to car radio surround as well that copped a bit of a clean.

All I need now is the actual rubber/plastic knobs for the front as mine were in a very sad state of repair and were breaking down like oil or something was coming out of them. I tried cleaning them but they were way past it.

Some things you just have to throw away.

When the time comes I will ask how to mount the unit as per factory.

Cheers,